Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval WestIn 1961 Georges Duby wrote what is still the best overview of European medieval rural history to date. Originally published in French and first translated into English in 1968, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West brings together local research on the countryside and its economic life and distills from it lessons that apply much more widely. With this edition, the University of Pennsylvania Press brings this modern classic back into print. |
Contents
Preface to the English Edition | xix |
Land and Labour 5 | xxii |
How Many Men Were There? II | 11 |
Agricultural Practices | 22 |
Wealth and Society The Manorial Economy | 28 |
Farming the Demesne | 37 |
Differences in manorial structure | 47 |
The Great Estate and the Peasant Economy | 54 |
Peasant Indebtedness and its Effects | 252 |
The Exploitation | 260 |
Conclusion Peasants and the Manor on the Eve of the XIV | 279 |
Introduction | 289 |
The Depopulation of the Countryside | 298 |
An Interpretation | 305 |
The Decay of the Manorial Economy | 312 |
Fixed Payments | 327 |
XIXIII CENTURIES THE RHYTHM AND LIMITS OF EXPANSION | 61 |
The Enlargement of the Ancient Village Territories | 72 |
The Settlement of the Intervening Spaces | 81 |
Work in the Fields | 88 |
Yields | 99 |
Agricultural Expansion and the Structure of Society | 113 |
Demographic Growth | 119 |
The Growth of Exchange and its Effects | 126 |
The Corn Trade | 134 |
Products of Forest and Pasture | 141 |
Commercial Growth and Social Development | 150 |
The Village Community and the Entrepreneurs | 156 |
BOOK III XIXIII CENTURIES THE MANOR AND THE RURAL ECONOMY | 169 |
Lay Fortunes | 182 |
Lords and Peasants in the XI and XII Centuries | 197 |
The Exploitation of Men | 220 |
Evolution of Feudal | 232 |
Fines on Transfers of Property | 239 |
The Rich and the Poor | 336 |
Peasants and Traders | 345 |
B THE Polyptyques | 366 |
REGIONAL DIFFERENCES | 374 |
F THE FATE OF LAY WEALTH | 382 |
B THE EXTENSION OF THE CULTIVATED AREA | 391 |
WIDENING OF EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES | 409 |
The Manor XIXII Centuries | 428 |
B PEASANT TENURE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY | 437 |
PRIVILEGED MONOPOLIES The Ban | 446 |
E RENTALS AND CUSTUMALS | 457 |
F THE MANORIAL STEWARDS | 472 |
B THE MANAGEMENT OF THE DEMESNE | 495 |
THE CONDITION OF THE PEASANTS | 503 |
B MANORIAL FARMING | 528 |
PEASANT BONDAGE | 544 |
Glossary | 554 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abbey abbot acres agricultural allod amongst animals appears arable arpents assarts barley belonging bishop bonniers Bouches-du-Rhône Carolingian Cartulaire castellan cereals church Cipières Cistercian Cluny corn countryside crops cultivation custom demesne deniers dependent documents Domesday Book domestic Duby dues economic eleventh century England English estates farm fields forest Fourquin fourteenth century France grain half hand harvest heirs holds household inhabitants inventories Irminon Item king labour services lease levied livres lord lord's lordship Mâcon Mâconnais manor manse Martinmas master meadow medieval métayage mill monastery monks muids ninth century oats oxen parcels Paris pasture peasants period plough polyptyques possessions production profits Provence reclamation regions rent rural economy seigneurie servants setiers sheep siècle soil sous sown taille tallage taxes tenants thirteenth century tithe town twelfth century village lands villeins vineyard virgate wages wheat wine wood woodland